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Are some USVI horses drugged with cocaine & heroine before races?
VI CONSORTIUM
By Attorney Terri Griffiths, an animal lover & former USVI attorney general
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI- In the US Virgin Islands (USVI), horses-racing is an unregulated sport. The statute providing for the new $30 million dollar Racino Development included a provision on anti-doping. The Senate rejected the anti-doping section. I drafted that anti-doping statute.
VI woman caught with heroin in Vagina – Dom. Rep. News Agency
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – A woman identified by Dominican Republic law enforcement agency as being a native of Tortola, Virgin Islands, Elizabeth F. Testamark-Venesia was arrested and charged in the Spanish speaking country after being nabbed at an airport there with heroin stashed in condoms in her vagina.
Philip Seymour Hoffman 'killed by toxic mix of drugs'
BBC NEWS
Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died of an accidental overdose of a mixture of drugs including heroin, cocaine, amphetamine, and benzodiazepine, officials have said.
Absent National Policy undermines drug treatment in VI - report
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Provision of treatment services in the absence of a National Drug Policy or coordinated Drug Reduction Strategy undermines the prevention and educational efforts of the Sandy Lane Centre (SLC), according to its 2012 annual report.